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Sunniva Rose, a Norwegian, gave a great TED talk in Oslo about nuclear power and thorium in particular. Coincidentally, the element thorium was discovered by a Norwegian and named after the Norse God of thunder, Thor.

If you don’t have time to view the entire video, I have extracted an important graphic:

As you can see, coal causes the most deaths per terrawatt-hour of electricity generated, and nuclear the least. The numbers aren’t even close, as you can see by the graphic.

Now, I am not saying that nuclear is perfectly safe. Nothing that mortals engage in is perfectly safe, but the statistics show that nuclear is much, much safer than other forms of electricity generation.